Browsing Economics (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Vega, Amaya"
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Deprivation and access to work in Dublin city: the impact of transport disadvantage
Ahern, Aoife; Vega, Amaya; Caulfield, Brian (Elsevier, 2016-09-29)Ireland's economy underwent a period of rapid expansion between 1995 and 2007, accompanied by a boom in construction. The subsequent decade saw a rapid decline in construction as Ireland went through an unprecedented ... -
Employment sub-centres and travel-to-work mode choice in the Dublin region
Vega, Amaya (2008)In this paper, travel-to-work patterns are analysed for a number of key employment sub-centres in the Dublin region. Geographical information system (GIS) visualisations and regression analysis are used to identify a small ... -
Spatial (Im)mobility and Accessibility in Ireland: Implications for Transport Policy
Rau, Henrike; Vega, Amaya (2012)Recent social research that links people s position in society to their ability to access employment has shown the centrality of spatial mobility in the (re-)production of patterns of (in)equality. This is particularly ... -
The spatial impact of commuting on income: a spatial microsimulation approach
Vega, Amaya; Kilgarriff, Paul; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Morrissey, Karyn (Springer Verlag, 2016-08-24)The Irish economic boom resulted in a substantial increase in car-ownership and commuting. These trends were particularly noticeable in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), with an unprecedented increase in employment levels and ... -
Using Place Rank to Measure Sustainable Accessibility
Vega, Amaya (2012)Sustainability and its implications for transport planning is an area of growing interest to researchers, transport practitioners and policy makers. This study draws from recent research on the concept and measurement of ...